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Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Jewish workers in Israel over the 13-year time period, 1983-1995. Work histories are constructed from a new joint database …, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995 Population Census data with monthly employment records of the … National Insurance Institute. The paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822160
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Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel: Endowments, Discrimination, and Selectivity
Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The … sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566836
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Ethnic Competition and Specialization
Kahanec, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233838
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The Substitutability of Labor of Selected Ethnic Groups in the US Labor Market
Kahanec, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper investigates the substitutability of labor of selected ethnic groups in the US labor market. In the generalized Leontief framework, the analysis of US census-based data reveals that labor of non-White ethnic groups is complementary to that of White ethnic group. This finding supports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822462
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Learning the Hard Way: The Effect of Violent Conflict on Student Academic Achievement
Brück, Tilman; Di Maio, Michele; Miaari, Sami H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number of conflict-related Palestinian fatalities during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959646
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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel: Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dmitri; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564699
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Immigrant Adjustment in Israel: Literacy and Fluency in Hebrew and Earnings
Chiswick, Barry R.; Repetto, Gaston - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking skills and Hebrew literacy are shown to increase with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703246
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Wage Mobility in Israel: The Effect of Sectoral Concentration
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Using a unique eight-year data set, merging population census and national insurance data, the paper examines and compares patterns of wage mobility in Israel. First, the public and the private sectors are compared. Second, within each of these sectors, a distinction is made between sub-sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822823
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A New Model for Equitable and Efficient Resource Allocation to Schools: The Israeli Case
BenDavid-Hadar, Iris; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper sets out a new budget allocation formula for schools, designed to achieve a more equitable distribution of educational achievement. In addition to needs-based elements, the suggested composite allocation formula includes an improvement component, whereby schools receive budgetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529122
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Job Quality in Segmented Labor Markets: The Israeli Case
Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
contract. Thereafter, and more significantly after 1995, the share of unionized workers dropped constantly, to almost half of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106165